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HJR-3 is dead until at least 2016

While proponents of HJR-3 hoped for a change that would re-add a civil unions ban to a proposed constitutional amendment, an HJR-3 sponsor announced today they didn't have the votes to make that happen.

In an anti-climactic turn of events, the Indiana Senate did not offer any amendments on Thursday to a controversial proposal that would ban gay marriage in Indiana's constitution.

About 20 minutes before the proposal was read for the second time on the Senate floor, Mike Delph, one of two sponsors of the legislation, tweeted, "HJR3 second sentence is officially dead in the 2014 IGA. Not enough support to reinsert it on 2nd reading."

It means the proposed constitutional amendment will not appear on the November 2014 ballot as some state politicians, including Gov. Mike Pence, had hoped.